I'm going to miss LJ
I'm really going to miss LJ. To me, it's still the best of the social networking sites because people tended to take more time in making posts and would expand on things that were important to them instead of just writing a single sentence about what they're doing at that moment or listing up a band they liked. Twitter and Facebook, to me, actually seem to encourage keeping people at a distance, of not knowing or keeping in touch with them better as they give the illusion that a single sentence or short paragraph is all that that person is about. You take a single pill and the 'need' is addressed. You move on with your day.
I met quite a few people through LJ, almost all of whom have moved onto other sites or perhaps no sites at all. Of the list of people I follow, only two post regularly. There is still apparently a few people who follow me, but I never hear from 99% of them. It's been a month and a half since I posted here and of my last three posts, none received any comments. I miss the days when there would be dialogue and discussion between people here. I know that others have had more luck here. I also know that posting loud, startling statements (something I don't like to do) garners a lot more notice than simply posting work, theories in art and so forth. I guess that because there was more dialogue in the past and now there isn't I feel more let down with LJ than I do with the other sites.
While I'm going to continue to check in here, for the two folks who still post and the possibility that others might every few months, I'm not going to update anything here. If anyone really wants to see the art, it's available on my blog, my tumblr, or my flickr.
I'll miss LJ. I really will. There were a lot of thoughtful moments had in both reading and writing things here. Technology seems to have passed it by. Which is a shame. Too many things seem to want to speed us up, have us consume more while receiving, perhaps even living less.
Here's the beginning of an image dump. The rest will be behind a cut.
One of two recent Fite redraws:
The most recent Fite re-draw:
An un-used design for an upcoming New Year's card (year of the dragon):
A color mack-up for a children's book I'm working on with my mom:
First of five pages of a short comic I did for an anthology which was rejected as the editor felt I phoned this one in. I don't necessarily agree and like this story but this is someone for whom I want to make happy. So I started something different after this.
And finally, the first page of the comic I started doing after the one above. Here's hoping this one meets with more success.
I met quite a few people through LJ, almost all of whom have moved onto other sites or perhaps no sites at all. Of the list of people I follow, only two post regularly. There is still apparently a few people who follow me, but I never hear from 99% of them. It's been a month and a half since I posted here and of my last three posts, none received any comments. I miss the days when there would be dialogue and discussion between people here. I know that others have had more luck here. I also know that posting loud, startling statements (something I don't like to do) garners a lot more notice than simply posting work, theories in art and so forth. I guess that because there was more dialogue in the past and now there isn't I feel more let down with LJ than I do with the other sites.
While I'm going to continue to check in here, for the two folks who still post and the possibility that others might every few months, I'm not going to update anything here. If anyone really wants to see the art, it's available on my blog, my tumblr, or my flickr.
I'll miss LJ. I really will. There were a lot of thoughtful moments had in both reading and writing things here. Technology seems to have passed it by. Which is a shame. Too many things seem to want to speed us up, have us consume more while receiving, perhaps even living less.
Here's the beginning of an image dump. The rest will be behind a cut.
One of two recent Fite redraws:
The most recent Fite re-draw:
An un-used design for an upcoming New Year's card (year of the dragon):
A color mack-up for a children's book I'm working on with my mom:
First of five pages of a short comic I did for an anthology which was rejected as the editor felt I phoned this one in. I don't necessarily agree and like this story but this is someone for whom I want to make happy. So I started something different after this.
And finally, the first page of the comic I started doing after the one above. Here's hoping this one meets with more success.